Nathaniel Branden Quotes

You learn you have to accept the way things are, and the sooner you accept them, the sooner you become at peace with them, and then the things start to get better.

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

You learn to accept your own reality.

Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.

When I've been open and accepting of where I am, things start opening up.

Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.

Just watching people's ability to adapt, especially young people's, inspires me to accept more in life instead of wishing things were different all the time.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.

I would say I'm quite happy in my life the majority of the time. Earlier in my life I was more questioning, overly trying to figure things out. I like this way much better.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

We have to learn to adapt to people and changes. Change is good.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I've never in my life categorized a year of my life as good or bad. I just think I'm living a good life, warts and all.

The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on.